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Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana

What is Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana?

The Prime Minister of India has launched another scheme aiming to provide 5 Crore LPG connections in the name of a woman falling below the poverty line. The scheme is called the Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana. 17, 66,254 Connections have been given to beneficiaries as of 21st July 2016. Some of the objectives of the scheme are empowering women and protecting their health, reducing the serious health hazards associated with cooking based on fossil fuel, reducing the number of deaths in India due to unclean cooking fuel and preventing young children from significant number of acute respiratory illnesses caused due to indoor air pollution by burning the fossil fuel. Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana has been launched in few states. Currently, the scheme is launched in Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Gujarat, Uttarakhand, Odisha, Bihar and Madhya Pradesh. Soon it will be launched in other states too.

According to reports, the BPL families will be identified after consultation with the Union territories and the state government. The social welfare scheme will be implemented over a period of three years (FY 2016-17, 2017-18 and 2018-19). Covered under the “Give Back” program, the PMUY scheme aims to provide five Crore connections over a three year period

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Why was Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana Introduced?

Clean Fuel is Accessible to only limited people. Poor people use the conventional methods like using fossil fuels. The usage of such fuels causes serious health problems. So, this scheme has been introduced to make sure that even the poorest families (BPL) have access to clean Fuel, LPG.

Funding for Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana

The government has set aside 2000 Crore rupees for this project. The project is expected to spread more in the coming three years and its implementation stages and total expenditure would be 8000 Crore by then. Collection or generation of funds has been worked out from the scheme where people of higher income group have voluntarily agreed to give up their subsidy. Till now 1.5 Crore people have already given up their option to avail the subsidy on LPG.